ISSN:
1354-5078
Language:
English
Additional Material:
Lit. S. 429-432
Titel der Quelle:
Nations and nationalism
Publ. der Quelle:
Oxford [u.a.] : Blackwell, 1995
Angaben zur Quelle:
12(2006), 3, Seite 413-432
Angaben zur Quelle:
volume:12
Angaben zur Quelle:
year:2006
Angaben zur Quelle:
number:3
Angaben zur Quelle:
pages:413-432
DDC:
303
Keywords:
Identität
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Nationenbildung
;
Nationalismus
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Relation
;
Geschichte
;
Vereinigtes Königreich Frankreich
;
Identität
;
Nationale Identität
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Nationen- und Staatenbildung
;
Nationalismus
;
Internationaler Vergleich/Ländervergleich
;
Relation
;
Geschichtlicher Überblick
;
Großbritannien
;
Frankreich
Abstract:
The English and the French are both former imperial peoples, and to that extent they share certain features of national identity common to peoples who have had empires. That includes a 'missionary' sense of themselves, a feeling that they have, or have had, a purpose in the world wider than the concerns of non-imperial nations. I argue that nevertheless the English and the French have diverged substantially in their self-conceptions. This I put down to a differing experience of empire, the sense especially among the French that the British were more successful in their imperial ventures. I also argue that contrasting domestic histories - evolutionary in the English case, revolutionary in that of the French - have also significantly coloured national identities in the two countries. These factors taken together, I argue, have produced a more intense send of nationhood and a stronger national consciousness among the French than among the English. (Nations and Nationalism)
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